i'm a new york city firefighter and a history major at the state university of new york, so first let me say what a pleasure it was to get home after weeks of battling hurricane cindy and find your program on this afternoon. my comment in question, right now i'm enrolled in a class about colonial america and were studying the conspiracy trials at 1741 and the plot, which was to suppose that plot to bring the city of new york and handed over to the spanish. i am curious if mr. davis knew about this event. if he did, why he didn't write about it in his book, don't know much about history. and if he knows about it, maybe he could share information with the listeners. >> host: chris, before we get an answer from kenneth davis, what have you learned about this? is this the first time you've heard about it? >> caller: yes, 42 years old, learning about it this semester. it's the most shocking thing i'd ever heard about this thing mitterand comparing it to the salem witch trial, which occurred 50 years prior and then comparing those two events. it seems american know more about the lump in it